I think we do have a soul !
There is no way to describe what I experience without a soul that transcends the personality. There is something in us which is more than my habits, limitations and combined past.
According to Christianity and Islam we each have an immortal soul, that may rot in hell if we don't behave. According to Hinduism we have a soul (atma) that will reincarnate till we grow enlightened (or awake) enough to not need to reincarnate any further. Buddhism agrees on the reincarnation, but some Buddhists believe that what reincarnates changes too much to be called a soul (anatma). Psychologists agree we have a personality, but don't know about what happens after we die.
Table of Contents
- Books on how to grow your SOUL
- Neurology doesn't agree
- Books on neurology
- Humans don't have a soul - links
- NDE's prove my point
- Books on Near Death Experiences (NDE)
- People do have a soul - links
- Books on the anatta (no-soul) doctrine in Buddhism
- Books on Vedanta: there IS a Soul (Atma)
- Do we have a soul? Your turn to talk!
- So, what do you think of this lens?
- More Spiritual Lenses
- Thanks for all your support!
Books on how to grow your SOUL
The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul
Amazon Price: $17.13 (as of 07/25/2008)
Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child
Amazon Price: $11.56 (as of 07/25/2008)
Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
Amazon Price: $12.21 (as of 07/25/2008)
A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss
Amazon Price: $11.55 (as of 07/25/2008)
Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul
Amazon Price: $12.21 (as of 07/25/2008)
Neurology doesn't agree
Books on neurology
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
Amazon Price: $10.20 (as of 07/25/2008)
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (James H. Silberman Books)
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 07/25/2008)
The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better
Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 07/25/2008)
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 07/25/2008)
Clinical Neuroanatomy Made Ridiculously Simple (3rd Edition; Book & CD-ROM)
Amazon Price: $20.66 (as of 07/25/2008)
Humans don't have a soul - links
Disagree? Put your money where your mouth is and show us why.
I could not find many publicly available articles online that explain just why people often disagree with my point. So please help.
Do Humans Have Souls?
Attack on the most basic Christian religious ideas more...1 point
The No-Soul doctrine in Buddhism explained
within this human being, consisting of mind and bo more...1 point
Biology, Consciousness, and the Definition of Death
When does a human life end? This question used to more...0 points
NDE's prove my point
Near Death Experiences (NDE) as proof for the soul
When a person gets medically labeled as 'brain-dead' - yet wakes up hours, days or even weeks later (and yes, that happens sometimes) - they often report experiences of all kinds of things. That's called a Near Death Experience. Some of those experiences sound a lot like the reports about what happens after we die by Tibetan Lama's. Others sound like they were actually conscious and knew what was happening around them.
To me it seems that science can't have it both ways: either the brain was not dead, and that explains why consciousness didn't stop - or the brain was dead and consciousness restarted the brain somehow. If it's the first: then people don't die as quickly as medicine would like us to - in order for them to harvest organs for organ-transplants. If the second: the soul does exist.
Books on Near Death Experiences (NDE)
Beyond The Veil/NDE Near Death Experiences
Amazon Price: $12.95 (as of 07/25/2008)
90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life
Amazon Price: $10.39 (as of 07/25/2008)
Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives
Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 07/25/2008)
Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon--Survival of Bodily Death
Amazon Price: $11.20 (as of 07/25/2008)
DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences
Amazon Price: $11.53 (as of 07/25/2008)
People do have a soul - links
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Suicide is not death
Suicide, like any other murder is a sin because it more...1 point
Do we have a soul?
Many scientists, especially neurologists, assume a more...1 point
Transforming the Self
The goal of all mysticism is to cleanse the heart, more...0 points
Eugen's Basic View of the Soul
The basic definitions of modern philosophy have at more...0 points
Expanding Our Centre of Consciousness
ALTHOUGH almost every spiritual tradition speaks o more...0 points
From Within Outwards: the Way of the Universe - John Algeo
according to The Secret Doctrine, each of us is a more...0 points
Books on the anatta (no-soul) doctrine in Buddhism
Anatta/Anatmata: An Analysis of Buddhist Anti-Substantialist Crusade (Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica Series)
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Anatta and Nibbana: Egolessness and Deliverance (Wheel Publication, 11)
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Books on Vedanta: there IS a Soul (Atma)
History Of Mysticism: The Unchanging Testament (3rd Rev. Ed.)
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Dogs, Cats and Dreams of Spiritual Awakening
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The Outrageous Myths of Enlightenment
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Self analysis and self knowledge: Based on Atma bodha of Shankaracharya
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Do we have a soul? Your turn to talk!
We DO have a soul
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byYes, of course we do!
Mysticshakra says:
Only a small percentage of people have souls. A soul is built by pondering on one's identity, it is not given by default. Everything in the Universe requires an exchange of energy, nothing is for nothing. Like muscles, building your soul takes effort.
Posted July 24, 2008
JaneDoe01 says:
I don't know about some people in the world, but I certainly know that I have a soul.
Posted July 14, 2008
HealthBug says:
Dead sure, man isn't lifeless like a machine. Feelings and emotions are attributes of a soul.
Posted June 25, 2008
Brahman says:
I'm going to proof its existence in the near future. Less than a year.
Posted June 25, 2008
RinchenChodron says:
Buddhists just don't use the term sole. They do believe that our essense comes back when we reincarnate. It is just a different way to say same thing.
Posted April 12, 2008
No way, our sense of 'I' is a neurological side-effect
So, what do you think of this lens?
I put this page in my favs, it's great! I love how more & more folks who really understand that we are way more than just a sack of mingling organic molecules are starting to speak out against extreme materialism. I had an nde (watch my video at youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdt7A83keqE)...and something happened during the experience that cannot be explained by science. Feel free to check it out and give your (respectful) opinion.
Posted July 22, 2008
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qlcoach
Wonderful job with this lense. Thank you for sharing it. Please consider interacting at my lense too: Posted July 11, 2008 |
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serramark71
I'm sure we have! Last week, my grandma died and my 2-year-old nephew, a son of my cousin, was sitting on a dinner chair facing his great-grandma's picture pointing to it shouting "Grandma, grandma" then, turns to point towards an empty chair and shout again, "Grandma grandma", then, back & forth! I'm sure it was grandma's soul he saw that time. Posted July 06, 2008 |
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HealthBug
A perfect debate, but facts are facts and they exist the way they are over and above these arguments. Posted June 25, 2008 |
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